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February 03, 2008
No actual sports must have been on
Today, apparently, is the Super Bowl. I always look on the Super Bowl with a certain bitterness, which can best be traced back to this. Or maybe this. At any rate, the NFL's two week lovefest will be over soon, and the best part about it will be that I don't have to put up with all the crap that goes along with the Super Bowl.
As if two straight weeks of talk isn't enough, today I discovered something else to hate: a televised Madden Football tournament. I was at the gym, running on a treadmill, and was subjected to a whole hour of watching grown men play a video game. Not only were they playing video games, they were acting like idiots while doing so.
As a rule, I don't like trash talk. I think it's rude and unsportsmanlike. But these video game players were trash talking in a video game. It was boring enough watching men play a video game, but it was downright nauseating to see a guy actually get in his opponent's face and talk smack during the course of said game. My one thought during all of this was, their mothers must be very proud of them. I can only assume ESPN (who must have run out of poker tournaments to televise) asked the players to ham it up - perhaps ESPN understood that watching people play a video game is not good TV.
I mean, if you see people playing a video game, you don't want to watch them play; you want to play. Why would I sit down and watch people do it on TV? Beats me.
entry no. 1072
Posted at February 3, 2008 04:01 PM